From: Ferenc Wagner <wferi@niif.hu>
To: "Arve Hjønnevåg" <arve@android.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 2.6.29-rc2 dies on startup
Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2009 18:13:58 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87y6wwisdl.fsf@tac.ki.iif.hu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <d6200be20901261629y2e3d8804h16055b9497125371@mail.gmail.com> (Arve =?utf-8?B?SGrDuG5uZXbDpWcncw==?= message of "Mon, 26 Jan 2009 16:29:55 -0800")
Arve Hjønnevåg <arve@android.com> writes:
> On Sun, Jan 25, 2009 at 10:46 PM, Andrew Morton
> <akpm@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
>
>> At a guess I'd say that drivers/staging/android/ram_console.c is calling
>> the reed-solomon code earlier than it's expecting. But that might be
>> totally wrong.
>
> Yes, but it also is trying to use a zero sized buffer at virtual
> address 0 so it will not work much better if you turn off ecc.
This sounds understandable given that the defaults are
CONFIG_ANDROID_RAM_CONSOLE_EARLY_ADDR=0x0
CONFIG_ANDROID_RAM_CONSOLE_EARLY_SIZE=0x0
> This patch (to the android kernel tree) add some validation:
Compiling it now (on the vanilla tree).
--
Regards,
Feri.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-01-27 17:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-01-19 12:53 Ferenc Wagner
2009-01-26 6:46 ` Andrew Morton
2009-01-27 0:29 ` Arve Hjønnevåg
2009-01-27 17:13 ` Ferenc Wagner [this message]
2009-01-28 11:33 ` Ferenc Wagner
2009-01-31 3:40 ` Greg KH
2009-01-31 4:21 ` [PATCH] ram_console: Disable ECC when early init is enabled and validate buffer size Arve Hjønnevåg
2009-01-27 16:10 ` 2.6.29-rc2 dies on startup Ferenc Wagner
2009-01-27 16:53 ` Andrew Morton
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